"Uncanny"
By Kassidy Grant
From the moment you walk in, you are unpleasantly greeted by the eerie feeling of the muddy brown-black sand. It devours your feet, capturing every inch of skin from you ankles to the tip of your toes. The air is moist and sticky, and part of you feels like there is no more oxygen left, and if there was, it wasn’t something you wanted to breathe in. The mud make it hard to walk and explore the rest of the land. It was almost like the clouds fell rapidly into eye level and amalgamated into one another. The clammy grey water gave off a reflection of what looked to be like giant sticks of cotton candy, but with a closer look, reveals trees that have been overcome by the homes of spiders. There wasn’t just one or a few, instead there will millions. The webs would remind you of an older woman’s hair that hadn’t been combed for years. The webs laid there matted and tangled upon one another. It was rare that the true beauty of the emerald green trees shined through.The further you went the more webs you ran into. The thought of the spiders could send a tingly chill down the toughest person’s back. What seemed to be a beautiful day before soon turned into a opaque place that was meant only for the unfortunate. The grounds were filled with spiders, brown one with fat bottoms filled with the juices of their victims who couldn’t get away in time. The flowers were no more, the spiders seemed to have imbibed them in one sitting. Only God could explain the smell coming from the elongated creatures. It was fun to make out the patterns of the different spiders. They crept along the ground leaving footsteps that were almost invisible to the human eye. It was only a matter of time before they in the hands of someone dangerous...
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